Tamil Nadu’s Dravidian politics is hell-bent on ensuring that the state and its people remain in denial of their umbilical cord with Bharat. The main Dravidian party, DMK, has declared war on studying Hindi as the third language under the new National Education Policy (NEP), even though Tamil and English will remain the first and second languages.

Given the DMK and the Periyar ideology’s long history of attacking Sanatana Dharma and tireless efforts to keep the artificial North-South divide alive for vote bank politics, the latest round of aggression is unsurprising. Such divisive regional chauvinism has kept state parties like the DMK and the TMC in power. Shiv Sena kept milking it by beating up ‘outsiders’ since Bal Thackeray’s time.

But in an increasingly wired world, this politics........

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